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1438 1439</div> 1440 1441 1442 1443 1444 <div class="section-wrapper"> 1445 1446<div class="cleaner"> </div> 1447<div class="left-col" id="img-float-right"> 1448 <div class="story-panel"><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2609/S00056/surviving-nuclear-war.htm"><h4><img src="https://mc-store1.s3.amazonaws.com/media/nn/www-scoop-co-nz/scoopFP/qm-4qxO3SZ5YmwBP.jpg" width="125" height="100"><i>Keith Rankin:</i> Surviving Nuclear War</h4><p>Jacobsen's Nuclear War is very northern hemisphere centric. New Zealand gets a single mention near the end, with the underexamined assumption that New Zealand, Australia and Argentina would have a few survivors.</p></a></div><div class="story-panel"><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2609/S00055/why-american-think-tanks-are-hamstrung-in-the-face-of-trumps-authoritarianism.htm"><h4><img src="https://mc-store1.s3.amazonaws.com/media/nn/www-scoop-co-nz/scoopFP/vWoCzlqoPlYcAzvS.jpg" width="125" height="100"><i>Martin LeFevre - Meditations:</i> Why American Think Tanks Are Hamstrung In The Face Of Trumpâs Authoritarianism</h4><p>Because local chapters avoid directly calling the sitting U.S. president an "authoritarian," they heavily lean on a specific educational strategy: hosting panels on global democratic backsliding to draw deliberate, undeniable parallels to the United States.</p></a></div><div class="story-panel"><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2609/S00053/false-advertising-albanese-digital-safety-and-australias-security-council-bid.htm"><h4><img src="https://mc-store1.s3.amazonaws.com/media/nn/www-scoop-co-nz/scoopFP/A68siiD3Rod8OV7z.jpg" width="125" height="100"><i>Binoy Kampmark:</i> False Advertising - Albanese, Digital Safety And Australiaâs Security Council Bid</h4><p>From time to time, it seems that every government needs to have a good ban to target an alleged vice.</p></a></div> 1449</div> 1450 1451<div class="centre-col" id="img-float-right"> 1452 1453 <div class="story-panel"><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2609/S00052/a-change-in-the-weather-214.htm"><h4><img src="https://mc-store1.s3.amazonaws.com/media/nn/www-scoop-co-nz/scoopFP/1hv3qG1DMdvi5Hmu.jpg" width="125" height="100"><i>Bruce Mahalski:</i> A Change In The Weather #214</h4><p>The latest episode of Bruce Mahalski's long-running cartoon strip A Change in the Weather, originally published in the Otago Daily Times magazine The Weekend Mix. </p></a></div><div class="story-panel"><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2609/S00050/from-the-sublime-to-the-revolting.htm"><h4><img src="https://mc-store1.s3.amazonaws.com/media/nn/www-scoop-co-nz/scoopFP/HavDiGQUPDShEdCp.jpg" width="125" height="100"><i>Martin LeFevre - Meditations:</i> From The Sublime To The Revolting</h4><p>Personal enlightenment is an oxymoron. Darkness is personal; awakening is not. </p></a></div><div class="story-panel"><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2609/S00047/tone-deaf-kiwisaver-and-the-circular-flow-of-income.htm"><h4><img src="https://mc-store1.s3.amazonaws.com/media/nn/www-scoop-co-nz/scoopFP/WOSaY3Mi9cUZ9Yfm.jpg" width="125" height="100"><i>Keith Rankin:</i> Tone Deaf KiwiSaver And The Circular Flow Of Income</h4><p>Policy 'doves' have a bias (i.e. leaning) towards stimulatory circular-flow political management, and policy 'hawks' have a bias towards constrictive circular-flow policy. </p></a></div> 1454</div> 1455 1456 1457 1458 1459 </div> 1460 <div class="cleaner"></div> 1461 1462</div> 1463<div class="right-col"> 1464 1465 1466 1467 1468 1469 1470 1471 1472 1473 1474 1475 1476 1477 1478 1479 1480 1481 1482 1483 1484 1485 1486 1487 1488 1489 1490 1491 1492 1493 1494 1495 1496 1497 1498 1499 1500 1501 1502 1503 1504 1505 1506 1507 1508 1509 1510 1511 1512 1513 1514
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1765well informed this specific National party proposal is, what evidence base it draws on, and how it was arrived at.</p></a></div><div class="story-panel"><a href="https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED2609/S00022/waitangi-tribunal-findings-validate-te-akateas-position-on-national-curriculum-reset.htm"><h4><img src="https://mc-store1.s3.amazonaws.com/media/nn/www-scoop-co-nz/scoopFP/xBhUYHlOlUIl5Wmk.jpg" width="125" height="100"><i>Te Akatea:</i> Waitangi Tribunal Findings Validate Te Akatea's Position On National Curriculum Reset</h4><p>Te Akatea calls on the Crown and the Minister of Education to immediately cease the unilateral rollout of the reset curriculum and act upon the recommendations issued by both Te Akatea and the Waitangi Tribunal.</p></a></div> 1766</div> 1767 1768 1769 1770 1771 </div> 1772 <div class="cleaner"></div> 1773 1774</div> 1775<div class="right-col"> 1776 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791 1792 1793 1794 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799 1800 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810 1811 1812 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822 1823 1824 1825 1826
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